About a month ago, I wrote the following post about "The Metagame," a fun card game…
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Today, Zimmerman tweeted the above one-liner, pointing out that both games (particularly mainstream blockbusters) and porn center around repetitive activities premised on "visceral pleasure and spectacle."

He followed up on that thought, saying: "I'd prefer to hypersexualize games, rather than de-sexualize them. Why not use Clockwork Orange and Macho Sluts as models for game design?"

Porn may have "bad" connotations in a lot of western society, but Zimmerman was quick to point out to fellow NYUer Charles Pratt that he has nothing against porn per se— "Porn is strange & wonderful," he wrote. "Beyond its politics of representation, it's a cultural form based on corporeal pleasure."

What do you'all think? Are games like porn? Is porn at all like games? If you had to give up games or porn, which would it be?